Tanokrom Agoromma, the all-women drum ensemble from the Centre for National Culture in Sunyani in one of their fascinating performances during the sod-cutting ceremony for the Bui Dam project last Friday.

The sensational Wulomei folkloric group continues with its series of gigs to promote its new Wulomei Returns album with a performance tomorrow, Friday, August 31 at Don’s Place, OSU in Accra. Veteran trumpeter, Mac Tonton, is the guest artiste for the night.

The Paramount Chief of Kaleo Traditional Area in the Nadowli district of the Upper West Region, Naa Banarnini Sandu 11, said due to the long drought coupled with the torrential rains that caused havoc to crops, houses and road network, there was bound to be a shortfall in food production in the Northern, Upper East and West regions and called on the government to take steps to mitigate the suffering of the people.

Mr. George Hikah Benson, Upper Regional Minister, on Monday appealed to chiefs in the region to sensitise people in their traditional areas who have not registered under the National Health Insurance Scheme to do so without delay.

THE Upper West Regional Minister, Mr. George Hikah Benson, has noted that female genital mutilation, early marriages, widowhood rites, defilement, child trafficking and child labour continue to impede the development of children in the region.

Togbega Gabusu V1, Paramount Chief of Gbi Traditional Area in the Volta Region, leads a delegation of four traditional leaders from Ghana to attend the first ever international cultural festival to be held at Anton de Komplain in Netherlands from today, August 25, 2007.

The tenth National Arts Festival for basic schools has opened in the Eastern Regional capital, Koforidua. The festival was on the theme: "Culture a tool for Peaceful Co-existence." It brought together pupil artistes showcasing the traditions of the various ethnic groups in the country.

THE attention of Nene Nagai Kassa VIII, Mla Hiomeh Mantse, the King makers of the Mia Hiomeh Division of Agomeda in the Shai Traditional Area and indeed the Shai Traditional Council has been drawn to two newspaper publications which appeared in the Monday, July 23 and Thursday, July 26, 2007 issues of the Daily Ghanaian Voice, with the above banner Headlines, both appearing on the front pages of the paper.

The Chief of Mamfe in the Akuapem Traditional Area of the Eastern Region, Osabarima Ansa Sasraku 111, has expressed concern about the alarming rate at which people in the turn were selling lands to outsiders, who in turn sell the lands to others at exorbitant prices.

Ama Ata Aidoo’s classic play, The Dilemma of a Ghost, written and first performed in 1964 at the amphitheatre (Commonwealth Hall), University of Ghana, re-opens at the National Theatre from Thursday through Sunday.

ALL five traditional councils in the Mfantseman District of the Central Region forming the ‘Borbor Fante’ will on August 25 hold a grand durbar to commemorate Ghana’s Independence Golden Jubilee celebrations.

KOSI Kedem, former Member of Parliament for Hohoe South, has advocated a proper repositioning and integration of the powers of the traditional authority into the local government system for effective administration and deepening of grassroots democracy and decentralization.

OKAISHIE Mantse, Nii Tetteh Kwao I on Saturday hosted over 500 kids in the area to sone sporting activities as part of activities to climax this year’s Homowo celebration of the chiefs and people of Okaishie.

THE Executive Director of Community Development Concern (CDC), a non-governmental organization in Ghana, Mrs. Jocelyn Ochlich-Dotse, has called for bold and sustained initiatives by all stakeholders in the fight against child trafficking and hazardous child labour.

OKAISHIE Mantse, Nii Tetteh Kwao I on Saturday hosted over 500 kids in the area to sone sporting activities as part of activities to climax this year’s Homowo celebration of the chiefs and people of Okaishie.

PIONEER Food Cannery (PFC) Limited, producers of Star Kist tuna and other worldwide quality tuna products, has made a donation of drinks, cash and products of the company to the Tema Traditional Council at a ceremony at the Tema Mantse’s palace.

THE Ghana @ 50 Secretariat, in collaboration with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Regional Integration and NEPAD is hosting the seventh Golden Jubilee Lecture to be delivered by the world renowned Professor Ali A. Mazrui, Albert Schweitzer Professor of Humanities and Director, Institute of Global Cultural Studies at the State University of New York.

THE President, Mr. John Agyekum Kufuor, has stated that Homowo celebration should not only be used to hoot at hunger but also an occasion to reflect on national development especially, in poverty alleviation.

THE first-ever Health Fair, which seeks to position health issues high on the public agenda and serve as a wake-up call for a general life style change in the country, is to be held in Accra from August 22-25.

CHIEFS of the Dagbon Traditional Area have pledged their support to assist the Otumfuo Mediating Committee, government, non-governmental organizations and other stakeholders mediating in the Dagbon conflict to give peace a chance for accelerated development.

The attention of the Kingmakers and elders of Osu has been drawn to a letter alleged to have emanated from the Ministry of Chieftaincy and Culture. The said letter seeks to instruct the National house of Chiefs to insert the name of a destooled Chief of Osu in the register of chiefs in the National House of Chiefs. The Kingmakers and elders of Osu are surprised at this development since the ex-chief in question has been destoooled some years back and his name expunged from the register of chiefs of the National House of Chiefs.

Beginning next Thursday, Mfantseman will play host to a most innovative festival: Borbor Mfantse Afahye 2007 to be organized by the Mfantseman District, with its headquarters at Saltpond, and the Ghana @ 50 Secretariat.

A HEAVY policy presence and an earlier warning that none of the factions should engage in any outdoor activity in the interest of peace both failed to dim the excitement of the annual Homowo at Ga Mashie, as the Ga Mantse, King Tackie Tawiah 111, sprinkled the traditional kpokpoi to continue an age-long tradition of saying ‘shame to hunger’.

A PROMINENT Chief in the Volta Region, Torgbui Kporsu 111 of Dzelukope, became one of the latest high-profile victims of road accidents in Ghana when he died on the spot following multiple collisions that claimed six lives on the Accra-Aflao road last Monday.

TRAGEDY hit the Wuddah family of Ada in the Greater Accra Region during this year’s Asafotufiam Festival when two identical twins, David Attah Wuddah and Isaac Lawer Wuddah, both fishermen and aged 38, died soon after eating a poisonous river fish popularly known as ‘kokoe’.

THE undisputed King of Afro Rap, Gyedu Blay Ambolley, was on Saturday, June 30 Crowned “King of Simigwa” by the Omanhene of Esakadu Traditional Area, Nana Kobina Nketia. This was in recognition of Ambolley’s outstanding contribution to Ghanaian music.

THE Ekumfi Traditional Council has dissociated itself from Mr. Kofi Asante, also known as Kofi Aborabora, who has been styling himself and posing as the chief of Ekumfi Ekumpoano in the Mfantseman District in the Central Region.

MR. Kingsley Francis Obeng, Eastern Regional Director of the Centre for National Culture (CNC) on Wednesday urged Traditional medical practitioners to package their drugs well for both local and foreign markets.

THE newly installed chief of Blekusu in the Volta Region Torgbui Agbali 111 has stated that at this stage of Ghana’s development it is highly important to have traditional rulers who have been groomed to address the growing challenges associated with development.

MUSICS legend P.S.K Ampadu, the man whose philosophical lyrics, placed a national crown on his head in the 1970s as the undisputed king of music and gave him the title, Odwontofohene nana Kwame Ampadu, wants to be president of the Musicians Union of Ghana (MUSIGA)

AKO Adjei was born on June 17, 1916 in Adjeikrom to Mr. Samuel Adjei and Johannah Okailey, both from Accra. He was to become a lawyer, teacher, civil servant, politician, nationalist, minister of state and one of the Big Six.

The Paramount Chief of the Nkoranza Traditional Area, Okatekyie Agyeman Kudom 1V, has refuted allegations by four divisional chiefs of the area that he has stolen stool regalia and replaced them with fake ones. He has also denied being arrogant and disrespectful to the Chiefs.

Where there’s a woman, there’s magic. That’s how African writer, Ntoshage Shange, expressed her conviction that one can never always grasp the rationale behind a woman’s actions. Similar sentiments were re-echoed at the National Theatre last week where Efo Kodjo Mawugbe’s play, In the Chest of a Woman, ran for three nights.

The Minister of Women and Children’s Affairs (MOWAC), Hajia Alima Mahama, has reminded traditional authorities, opinion leaders and religious bodies of their duty of playing a leading role in educating and sensitizing the public on crimes and social vices which are retarding progress and development of society.

One hundred and eight beauties from various countries and territories met in Henan, China, from July 7 to August 2 to compete for the title of “Miss Tourism Queen International 2007. In the end, world tourism was the winner.

The Omanhene of Nkoranza, Okatakyie Agyeman Kudom 111, has affirmed that he is still the Omanhene of the traditional area and that his purported destoolment by a section of the Kingmakers is null and void.

The American Historian, Arthur Schlesinger Jr. (who died early 2007, at age 89, with 27 books under his belt) was renowned for sounding the dangers facing a nation without “a vital centre” or “a governing consensus”.

A HEAVY police presence and an earlier warning that none of the factions should engage in any outdoor activity in the interest of peace both failed to dim the excitement of the annual Homowo at Ga Mashie, as the Ga Mantse, King Tackie Tawiah 111, sprinkled the traditional food, kpokpoi, to continue an age-long tradition of saying ‘shame to hunger’.

THE timely intervention of the police prevented what would have been a bloodbath at Apedwa, near Kyebi in the Eastern Region, when a group of rampaging youth set fire to the personal property of the chief, Nana Addo Gyekye 11, at the palace, in an attempt to eject him on Tuesday.

THE climax of this year’s Homowo festival of the chiefs and people of the Ga State passed off peacefully on Saturday, despite earlier fears that it would be marred by chaos, owing to the chieftaincy disputes in some parts of the traditional area.

NAA CHAIRMAN; Members of the Council of State; Ministers of State; Members of Parliament; Your Excellencies, Members of the Diplomatic Corps; Distinguished Chiefs; Fellow Award Winners; Distinguished Invited Guests; Ladies and Gentlemen:

IN the dawn of the 21st century, one cannot help of globalization with all of its associated problems. Ghana is a metropolitan country and because the world has now become a global village, any country can invade ours through its music, culture, movies, the Internet and television programmes.

GHANA is in the process of being transformed into a land that could be described as “flowing with milk and honey”. However, conscious efforts on the part of the national leadership ought to be aimed at ensuring that “the flow” does not get trenched and (mis) directed into the sea of human ignorance, greed, selfishness and inefficiency.

WE have had occasions in this column to lament the spate of indiscipline in this country. We are happy to learn that His Excellency the Vice President, Alhaji Aliu Mahama, has renewed his commitment to the fight against indiscipline, and has made same, the cornerstone of his campaigns.

In the ancient kingdom of Ebusa, a dying Queenmother bequeaths the stool of the Kingdom to Kwaku Duah 11, the younger of her two children, and males Yaa Serwaah, the elder daughter, the custodian of three villages.

Culture was at its best when various traditional music and dance groups mounted stage the at the official opening of this year’s Pan-African Historic Theatre Festival (PANAFEST) held recently at the Victoria Park, Cape Coast.

THE Ga Paramount Dzase has declared that there will be no public procession and sprinkling of the traditional food, kpokpoi, in Ga Mashie during the Homowo festival on August 11, in the interest of peace.

WE the chiefs, elders and the kingmakers of the Mla Hoimeh division of the shai state have disassociated ourselves from the publication which appeared in the Ghanaian Times of Tuesday, July 24, and other papers that one Joseph Kofi Addai has been outdoored as the Divisional Chief of Mla Hoimeh with the stool name Nene Nagai Kassa V111.

THE Minister of Water Resources, Works and Housing, Alhaji Abubakar Saddique Boniface, has called on Africans, including those in the Diaspora, to use the celebration of Emancipation Day and PANAFEST as vehicles to pull the African race together towards the continent’s development.

THE Minister of State for Chieftaincy and Culture, Mr. Sampson Kwaku Boafo, has stated that the National Festival of Arts and Culture (NAFAC) should be used as a national platform where people could meet and exhibit their traditional and cultural potential.

The Joseph Project, also known as Akwaaba Anyemi, which is meant to strengthen the Pan-African events, PANAFEST and Emancipation, has been officially launched at Elmina at a durbar which brought together traditional leaders and Africans in the Diaspora.

THE Koforidua Centre for National Culture, Formerly called koforidua Arts and Culture Centre is believed to be one of the early capital intensive projects initiated by the C.P.P regime under Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah.

BY the time Otumfuo Nana Sir Osei Tutu Agyeman Prempeh II ascended the throne, the Ashanti Kingdom was a British conquered territory and colony. The kingdom was in a coma and the Ashanti confederacy had disintegrated.

Mr. Ben Eleblu, the Acting Chairman of the Ho Development Association (HODA), presented a certificate of honour to Togbe Afede X1V, the Agbogbomefia and President of the Asogli, Traditional Council, in appreciation of his good works both at the traditional and national levels.

KING Ayisoba, The Award-Winning Traditional Singer currently making waves on the local music scene, might be considering revising the hope-inspiring words of an upbeat tune of his if he had followed discerningly the proceedings of the 9th Ordinary Assembly or the AU recently held in Accra.

THE First Grand Durbar of the chiefs and people of the three Northern Regions of the country was held at Bolgatanga last Saturday to celebrate the lives of eight personalities who have distinguished themselves in various fields towards the development and image upliftment of the regions.

AND of Israel swear an oath and said: “God will surely come to your aid and then you must carry my bones up from this place”. Genesis 50:25). Hebrews. 11: 14 reads ‘By faith Moses when he had grown up refused to be known as the son of pharaoh’s daughter’.

A Workshop to evaluate the contributions of traditional authorities and leaders in governance and socio-economic development of the country ended in Kumasi with a call on all stakeholders to collaborate to make the chieftaincy institution a major stakeholder in local governance.

THE Omanhene of the Essikado Traditional Area, Nana Kobina Nketsia V, has designed a programme under the Nana Nketsia Trust to teach the present generation the values and the beauty of the country’s culture.

ALL Regional Houses of Chiefs are each to be provided with a counsel by government to facilitate adjudication of back log cases, Mr Sampson Kweku Boafo, Minister of Chieftaincy Affairs and Culture, has said.

MASTER xylophonist, Kakraba Lobi, died at the Ridge Hospital in Accra last Friday. According to hospital sources, the 68-year old virtuoso died of pneumonia. Kakraba’s nephew, S.K. Lobi, a xylophone player with the Hewale Sounds, said his uncle was taken ill late on Tuesday night and was rushed to the Ridge Hospital early on Wednesday where he died two days later.

IN the 19th and 20th centuries, when Britain ruled the waves as a seafaring nation, and extended her political sway from Asia, through the Caribbean to Africa, she commanded immense wealth from her trading and investments in those territories.

AS part of its contribution to the celebration of Ghana’s 50th anniversary, the Musicians Union of Ghana (MUSIGA) has brought together various artistes to record an eight-track album titled Championing African Excellence Party Music.

Blakk Rasta made Tourism ambassador for Zimbabwe
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The tourism industry stands as Ghana’s fourth largest foreign exchange earner after Cocoa, Gold and Oil & Gas, achieved the target of one million tourist arrivals and is expected to improve on these numbers to generate more revenue for the country....more

Raj Multimedia in collaboration with the Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Creative Arts, has launches the Ghana international Tourism fair with the aim to rejuvenate tourism and recreating the concept of Ghanaian culture Art and others....more

The world of African culture is rooted in religious paradigm because for the African mind religion or spiritual dimension is the source of both identity and meaning. This means that religion or spiritual dimension.......more

Food is central to human life regardless of where you are in the world. The Ghanaian cuisine is very much influenced by the natural possessions and surroundings of Ghana and by the local climate of the country......more

Every individual craves to be accepted as a member of a cultural group. Inevitably, every one belongs to one group or the other and is easily identified as a member of the group when he conforms to a particular way of life.......more

Laws are established to protect the citizens of particular groups of people. In other words, laws exist to protect the rights of the members of a society and to ensure that they do not have to protect...more

The Third Senior High Schools (SHS) Drama and Poetry Festival for schools in the Western Region have being held on 25th and 26th February, 2015 at the Theatre of the Centre at Fijai. The Drama was on the theme “Unearthing a New Generation of Artistes”...more

After weeks and months of various activities, a graduate of the University of Development Studies (UDS), Wa Campus, Bentie Abigail Baciara, has been crowned winner of TV3’s Ghana’s Most Beautiful VIII......more

THIS essay has been prompted by an introspection of Ghana’s fortunes since independence and the celebration of the Jubilee this year. The writer seeks to answer the question why there appears to be “something missing” somewhere in the scheme of affairs in Ghana’s development....more

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